Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore

PREFACE

Under the heading of ‘The Varieties of English Speech’ an article of mine appeared in _The Quarterly Review_ of July, 1907. The favourable reception accorded to it at the time prompted me to embark forthwith on a larger work dealing with the same subject.

Many books both scientific and popular have been written concerning dialect speech and lore, but nearly all of them...